Environmental group names Arkansas professor as president

The Soil Science
Society of America recently named a University of Arkansas
agriculture professor its 2017 president.

Andrew Sharpley,
a 35-year veteran of the society, served as the Madison,
Wisconsin-based group’s president-elect last year.

Sharpley
said the administrative role will give him a chance to pay forward
the help the society gave him as a young scholar. Sharpley researches
the effects of farming on safe drinking water,

"The
SSSA has served me well during my research career, and I see this as
an opportunity to help the society continue to provide unparalleled
service to its current and future members," Sharpley said. "Some
of the major challenges I see facing soil scientists over the next
few years are meeting food and water security challenges, which are
often in conflict."